USM Auriga

USM Auriga

The Auriga in orbit near Pluto.
First appearance	Alien: Resurrection
Fate	Destroyed (crashed into Earth)
References	"The Making of Alien Resurrection"
General characteristics
Class	Military research starship
Maximum speed	FTL: 3,169,777,333.333 km/h Sublight: 0.08 LYSD
Auxiliary craft	Numerous escape pods
Armaments	see below
Propulsion	FTL: Two (2) US/FLD-270/C Ion-Ram Hyperdrive Slipstream Engines Sublight: Two (2) US/SLD-400/A Plasma Fusion Drives
Mass	Empty: 78,000 metric tons (72,550 t) Fully Loaded: 91,200 metric tons (83,000 t)
Length	3,658 m (12000’)
Width	718 m (2355')
Height	628 m (2060')

The USM (United Systems Military) Auriga is a fictional spaceship depicted in the fourth installment of the Alien quadrilogy, Alien: Resurrection and is by far the largest vessel depicted in the Alien series. A large, well-equipped military vessel, the Auriga is primarily used for illegal medical research and biological weapons development. It has a small crew of medical scientists and security personnel, and is commanded by the corrupt USM General, Ramón Perez.

Description

The Auriga just before impact.

The vast majority of the film is set on the Auriga, where the long-dead Ellen Ripley has been cloned from frozen DNA taken from the prison planet Fiorina 161 in Alien³, along with the embryonic Xenomorph Queen growing inside her. The Auriga's scientists manage to successfully extract the Queen, and the Ripley clone quickly recovers, having somehow retained all her former memories and intelligence. However, the Alien drones being kept for study soon escape, slaughtering the ship's guards and scientists, including General Perez and his aides.

The Auriga crashing near Africa.

The rest of the film details the exploits of Ripley and a motley crew of renegades (including the good-intentioned female android, Call) as they attempt to escape with their lives. Many of them are killed in the process, but Ripley, Call and a few others manage to escape on board the renegades' transport ship, the Betty.

The Auriga is destroyed when Call programs its engine controls to send it into a collision course with Earth. The impact obliterates the ship and all the Aliens on board.

Ship Details

Dimensions:

• Hull: 480 m (1440 ft) x 92 m (276 ft) x 88 m (264 ft)
• Superstructure 116 m (348 ft) x 32 m (96.5 ft) x 25 m (75 ft)

Crew:

• 12 Command Staff (inc. bridge officers, Gen. Perez etc)
• 8 Maintenance Personnel
• 12 Science Personnel
• 23 USM Guardsmen

Armaments

Defensive Armament

• Six Raptor AX/II-A Computer-Guided Anti-Ordnance Weapons Platforms
• Four Viper D-220 Zero-Gravity Hypervelocity Turrets
• Five Shryke-2 XN/V-32 Electron Railgun Units

Offensive Armament

• None

Electronics

• TM/A-R8 Mid-Range Sensor Antennae
• SO/S-V2 Orbital Survey Radar Array
• B-FZ/22-A Defensive Fire Control Radar Array

See also

• The Nostromo
• The Sulaco

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